A OBRA HIBISCO ROXO E A LIBERDADE, TRANSGRESSÃO E AGÊNCIA DAS MULHERES

Abstract

For most of history, women were prevented from accessing formal education, consequently, literary production wasn't a possibility in their lives. In the social realm, however, despite the achievements, many women didn't see themselves represented in the feminist movement. This was due to the reality of its organizers, who were white, as well as their literary productions, diverged from the reality of African/Asian/Indigenous/African-American women. Therefore, it was necessary to think about a literature beyond the hegemonic/Western/white perspective, one that would allow the emergence of stories inviting the reader to reflect on the inequalities and asymmetries present in the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie finds herself among writers who dare to present, discuss, and reflect in their literary production on the daily lives of peoples affected by colonization while being colonized. It is in this sense that the present work aims to analyze the novel "Hibisco Roxo" (2003) by Adichie, focusing on how the female characters construct spaces of transgression, agency, freedom, and resistance within a context of coloniality. As a theoretical reference, there are contributions from Postcolonial Studies with Spivak, Hall, Fanon, Said, Bhabha; of decolonial studies, with Lugónes, Quijano, Mignolo, Maldonado Torres, Gonzalez; African theories and criticisms, such as Amadiume, Oyewùmí, Ogunyemi, Hudson-Weems, Ogundipe-Leslie and Adichie herself; in addition to conceptual analyzes based on authors such as Foucault, Weber, Giddens, Latour, Butler. Thus, it is about entering, , through both study and literature, the postcolonial reality of a feminine literature through which women exist, resist and write about what this means. When analyzing the characters, the presence of desire is verified as an intrinsic manifestation of freedom and its realization in the act of transgression finds in agency the potential to shift its latency into the realm of power relations, where their role is to reshape structures using the very tools through which society reproduces itself.